{"id":6924,"date":"2011-08-22T02:22:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2011-08-22T02:22:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T09:22:28","slug":"monday-miscellany-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/monday-miscellany-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.debtkid.com\/five-financial-lessons-you%E2%80%99ll-learn-from-the-zombie-apocalypse\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Five Financial Lessons You&#8217;ll Learn from the Zombie Apocalypse.&#8221;<\/a> Uh &#8230; yeah.\n<li>Bovard on <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424053111903520204576480542593887906-lMyQjAxMTAxMDIwMDEyNDAyWj.html?mod=wsj_share_email\" target=\"_blank\">raising hell<\/a> in subsidized housing. Typical government solution to a government problem.\n<li>I&#8217;ve been wondering how long it would be before commentators started predicting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/ct-met-kass-0819-20110819,0,6139674,full.column\" target=\"_blank\">the killer-rabbit moment<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/22\/world\/europe\/22pope.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Pope Tells Pilgrims to Stay True to Faith.&#8221;<\/a> Why is this &#8220;news&#8221;? Why on freaking earth is this news? It&#8217;s right up there with the headline the MSM prints every six months or so: &#8220;Pope Prays for World Peace.&#8221; I mean, nothing against Catholicism. As religions go, it was one of the best I ever tried out. The pope might even be a decent fella for all I know. But really, what does anyone expect the pope to say? <i>Forget all that faith stuff and party hearty? A few nukes would go good right about now?<\/i> How on freaking earth does this &#8220;pope endorses faith&#8221; stuff qualify as &#8220;news&#8221;? You&#8217;d get more actual news at Kim Kardashian&#8217;s wedding.\n<li>Speaking of religion &#8230; I could almost kinda sorta like some things about Rick Perry. I mean aside from him being a warmongering corporate shill, you know. But this part, no way &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/08\/22\/monday-miscellany-44\/rick-perry-and-jesus\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6929\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Rick-Perry-and-Jesus-450x281.jpg\" alt=\"Jesus tells a media-hungry Rick Perry that he doesn&#039;t do endorsements\" title=\"Rick-Perry-and-Jesus\" width=\"450\" height=\"281\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6929\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Five Financial Lessons You&#8217;ll Learn from the Zombie Apocalypse.&#8221; Uh &#8230; yeah. Bovard on raising hell in subsidized housing. Typical government solution to a government problem. I&#8217;ve been wondering how long it would be before commentators started predicting the killer-rabbit moment. &#8220;Pope Tells Pilgrims to Stay True to Faith.&#8221; Why is this &#8220;news&#8221;? Why on freaking earth is this news? It&#8217;s right up there with the headline the MSM prints every six months or so: &#8220;Pope Prays for World Peace.&#8221; I mean, nothing against Catholicism. As religions go, it was one of the best I ever tried out. The pope&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/monday-miscellany-44\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}